Eric Dutram: Financials firms on both sides of the Atlantic appear to be facing some serious trouble. Banks in Europe are under pressure due to a variety of PIIGS debt issues, any of which could cause a disaster for the broad sector if left untreated or unresolved. Read more…

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Roger Conrad:  Will Europe resolve its sovereign debt crisis and return to growth in 2012? Or will, as so many fear, the Continent’s economic unity dissolve and its banking system and common currency collapse, dragging the rest of the world into another recession? Read more…

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